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Many people do not have numpads anymore. I didn’t specify but I just wanted to point that out. I was intending it to be keys that all keyboards have meaning more the non-numpad keys in a straight line.

Regarding the ‘Five Obstructions’ movie: When I mentioned my constraints theme to a friend of mine last week he told me about the premise of that movie which I hadn’t heard of before. Sounds pretty cool and I definitely want to check it out!

Ooh, like the constraints. Although the keys make any simple up/down/left/right controls unfeasible, I just thought up a game I can do. I might not finish it this weekend as I won’t have much time, but if I happen to get stuff wrapped up earlier than expected this is what I’ll be doing.

For you guys without a mic, a quick and easy trick is to plug your earbuds or headphones into the microphone port on your computer. The sound quality is appalling but for making some sound effects it could yield interesting results. And since Ludum Dare is about using on-the-spot stuff (kinda) I think it fits the concept quite well.

Ok,…now that the compo is over I want to say it was again much fun. Actually at the beginning I didn’t like the color-constraint but in the end I liked it very much being forced to use nice old dithering-technique with a somehow freaky crazy color result
Still I’m not fast enough to really finish a game in 48h. But it’s getting better.

I’m so excited to check out all these games! If you haven’t submitted your game into the newer system (link in post above) you may want to do that for ease of browsing the results of this mini LD 16.

Thanks again for playing along with my constraints everyone! I’m pretty wiped out after hosting this miniLD and making a game this weekend but I am quite thankful for everyone in this awesome game making community–you all rock!